FILM

A Grammar for Listening (Part 1)
Luke Fowler, 2009, UK, 16mm, 22'

Fowler collaborates with sound artist Lee Patterson to investigate the dialogue between listening and seeing. The 16mm footage by Fowler is supplemented by the digital audio recordings by Patterson, who uses recorders to interact with the environment, found objects and underwater landscapes. Patterson evokes sounds ranging from complex, harmonic overtones in electro-magnetically 'excited' springs (often found in discarded lighters) to the exploding and shifting micro-sound of burning walnuts.